We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Yazzy Simons. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Yazzy below.

Yazzy, appreciate you joining us today. We’d love to hear about a project that you’ve worked on that’s meant a lot to you.

The most meaningful project I’ve worked on has been my band Spinning Jenny. When Jenny started I was in a very difficult place in my life. I was friends with a few musicians but hadn’t been singing for about 4 years. I knew Kylan, the Jenny guitarist, through mutual friends and was a fan of his band Clog. Eventually we became friends and I tagged along to the studio he worked at for him to test some equipment . He tracked some guitar and asked me to go into the booth and sing whatever. I ended up writing the words to our first song Tell Me How. A few weeks later we talked to bassist Dani Garcia and drummer Erik McCready and they agreed to help us start the project. Even though we’ve had some swapping of members Dani and Erik were integral for helping us identify the original concept for the band. This project has been so meaningful for me as it’s what brought me back to music after a difficult relationship with it and it holds the first songs I’ve ever written and has been my first experience working for professional musicans.

Yazzy, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?

I grew in Palo Alto, California playing pop tunes with my dad’s band, and got into musical theater. In high school I joined choir and did a summer camp at Stanford Jazz which influenced me to minor in Jazz at the University of Denver. Through DU I met the members of my pop band, Spinning Jenny, and started a Brazilian Jazz duo with my guitarist Kylan Fermin. I’m proud of my growth as a person and as a musician and hope to keep booking more shows both for Spinning Jenny and my Yazzy Duo.

What do you find most rewarding about being a creative?

I feel like music is microcosm for life and I find it inspiring that that gets to be a colaborative experience. My favorite part of being a musician is making friends because it seems to be the source of a beautiful life.

We’d love to hear your thoughts on NFTs. (Note: this is for education/entertainment purposes only, readers should not construe this as advice)

As an artist, my perspective on NFTs is deeply rooted in the ontological exploration of value transference in the post-digital economy. They represent a synergistic convergence of visual semiotics and blockchain mechanics, creating a paradigm where creativity is both immutable and infinitely replicable—except, of course, when it’s not. I find the process of minting an NFT to be akin to planting a tree in a forest made entirely of JPEGs: you’re contributing to an ecosystem, but also vibes :D. The ability to tokenize a singular, non-fungible essence of art elevates it to a quantum state where it simultaneously exists as both culture and speculation. In summary, NFTs are like Schrödinger’s art—valuable and worthless at the same time, and I think to myself… lol

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